Lithuanian PM Says Ukraine Crisis May Lift Euro Support

Lithuania's prime minister said the political crisis in nearby Ukraine should give his government fodder to steer public opinion in favor of joining the euro zone in 2015.

Speaking in a phone interview Friday, Algirdas Butkevičius, said: "We need full integration into the European Union." Lithuania, like its two Baltic counterparts, has spent two decades of independence from the former Soviet Union, forging ties with the West by joining the EU and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.